This week one of my patients needed a cystocentesis (cyst-toe-cent-pieces with a silent P) performed. “Wow,” you might say, ”That sounds horrible: A cyst on a toe as big as a penny in pieces?” Although, I like to use long scary doctor words, “cysto” means we are talking about the urinary bladder (very far away from the paws!) and the “centesis” means roughly ‘poking with a needle,’ which sounds scary but really isn’t! So, performing cystocentesis means that I stick a long, sk